Monster Trucks Come to Roberts

Thanks to 5th grader Tammy Wu, all of our Fifth Graders enjoyed a visit from Monster Truck driver Chad Fortune this past Thursday, March 3. Tammy, a student in Ms. Footman’s class, won a poster-drawing contest through the D.A.R.E. Program. Officer Boni, who represents D.A.R.E. at Roberts, presented Tammy with an award and then asked all our 5th graders to go outside to look at a real Monster Truck.

Tammy and her winning entry

Chad Fortune

Chad Fortune, Officer Boni and First Place Winner Roberts’ very own Tammy Wu.

Tammy and Chad Fortune

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Black History Month Finale at Roberts

If the end of February and beginning of March are any indication, fun events are coming to Roberts! February 29 marked the end of Black History Month and Roberts students and staff had a blast ending the festivities. Our own staff sang songs inspired by Black History and our Administrative Intern Ms. Daniel sang “Lift Every Voice.”

The African dancers from our After School Program electrified the audience with their dance.

Our African Dance students

Ms. Daniel Singing “Lift Every Voice”

Our Roberts Staff Singers

Book Reviews from Roberts’ 6th Graders

Roberts 6th grade students in our ELA Enrichment Class have been hard at work creating a bank of book reviews for fellow students to use when selecting books. Look at these book reviews and check out some greatbooks.

http://robertselabookreviews.blogspot.com/

Surveymonkey Online preferences survey

Please fill out this survey by following this link, Thank you!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SX6Y5MG

Our 5th grade gets ready for Baltimore Woods field trip with WebQuest

Ms. Coir’s, Ms. Footman’s and Ms. McMahon’s classes are researching ecosystems using this WebQuest. Once students are done with their research, they will use IPads to create a news-style movie featuring their research.

HEADLINE NEWS!: TIGERS ARE SWIMMING IN THE OCEAN!

Our Roberts 6th Graders Are Reviewers

Our sixth graders, in the ELA Tutorial Enrichment class, have been busy creating reviews for their favorite books. Check these out and hopefully, you will read some of these great books.

Book reviews, click right here

My Symbaloo on creating bibliographies

http://nycertification.symbaloo.com/mix/creatingabibliography

Celebrating Black History Month at Roberts K-8 School.

Local storyteller Vanessa Johnson came to our school on Jan. 31 to tell stories and sing songs about Black History heritage to our elementary school students.

She shared the story of Sarah Loguen, a distinguished abolitionist from Syracuse, with our 4th graders. She will come back on Fri. Feb. 14 to continue this celebration with our upper grades.She was terrific!

Science Fair Timeline and some helpful websites

Our students are busy preparing for our science fair. The science fair will take place on Feb.5-6, 2014.

Here are some helpful links to website that may be useful in preparing your science fair projects:

http://www.ipl.org/div/projectguide/

http://www.sciencebuddies.org/

http://www.juliantrubin.com/fairprojects.html

http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/

Here is the timeline for handing in project materials:

Come visit our library and see this 6th grade ELA Tutorial project on display. The objective of the project was to write an essay about a person they admire and then compare and contrast their achievements using a word cloud. We used an online program called tagxedo (tagsxedo.com)  to create the word clouds from the essays. Students used books, online databases and other resources to write their essays.